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270. Adams, Henry. Mont-Saint Michel and Chartes. Intro. by Francis Henry Taylor. Illus. with screened gravure plates after photographs by Samuel Chamberlain. 10x7, gray buckram, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the press of A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Signed by Chamberlain in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
271. Aeschylus & Percy Bysshe Shelley. Prometheus Bound & Prometheus Unbound. Preface by Rex Warner. Illus. by John Farleigh. 11x7, gilt-dec. cloth, slipcase. No. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Fine. (50/80).
272. Aeschylus. The Oresteia. Trans. by E. D. A. Morshead. Intro. by Rex Warner. Illus. with color plates from paintings by Michael Ayrton. 13x9-3/4, half leather & cloth, gilt-lettered cloth spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from a plan by Adrian Wilson & printed at the press of A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Signed by Ayrton in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
273. Alarcon, Pedro Antonio De. The Three-Cornered Hat. Trans. by Martin Armstrong. Intro. by Gerald Brenan. Illus. in color & black & white after Roger Duvoisin. 11x7-1/4, half gilt-lettered cloth & dec. boards, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Plantin Press. Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Signed by Duvoisin in colophon. Fine. (60/90).
ILLUSTRATED BY COVARRUBIAS
274. All Men Are Brothers. 2 vols. Trans. by Pearl S. Buck. Intro. by Lin Yutang. Illus. with line engravings hand-colored through stencils after Miguel Covarrubias. 12-1/4x9, original oriental bark-paper hand-sewn into boards, calligraphic Chinese cover labels, chemise. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Stratford Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Signed by Covarrubias in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
SIGNED BY HERSHOLT & KREDEL
275. Andersen, Hans Christian. The Complete Andersen: All of the 168 Stories. 6 vols. Trans. by Jean Hersholt. Hand-colored illustrations by Fritz Kredel. 10-1/2x6-1/4, half blue buckram & dec. boards, silver-lettered spine, glassine. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by The Ferris Printing Co. New York:. Limited Editions Club, [1942 & 1949]. Signed by Hersholt & Kredel in the colophon. Fine. (100/150).
SIGNED BY EDMUND DULAC
276. Apuleius, Lucius. The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche. Re-told by Walter Pater. Illus. with color plates by Edmund Dulac. 10-1/2x7-1/4, full vellum dec. & lettered in gilt, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed under the supervision of Warren Chappell. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Signed by Dulac in colophon. Fine. (300/500).
ILLUSTRATED BY LEONARD BASKIN
277. Aristotle. Politics and Poetics. Trans. by Benjamin Jowett & S. H. Butcher. Intro. by Horace M. Kallen. Illus. with mounted portrait drawings after Leonard Baskin. 10-3/4x7-3/4, gilt-dec. & lettered cream & blue cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Signed by Baskin in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
278. Augustine, St. The Confessions of.... Trans. by J. G. Pilkington. Intro. by George N. Shuster. Illus. by Edy Legrand. 10-1/2x8-1/4, half leather & cloth, gilt-lettered morocco cover label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by W. S. Cowell. Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Signed by Legrand in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
279. Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations of.... Trans. by Meric Casaubon. Illus. with color wood-engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller. 9-3/4x6, half black morocco & marbled boards, matching slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Peter Beilenson. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Signed by Mueller in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
280. Balzac, Honore de. Old Goriot. Trans. by Ellen Marriage. Intro. by Francois Mauriac. 10-3/4x6-3/4, half leather & marbled boards, spine dec. & lettered in gilt. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Curwen Press. 1948. * Eugenie Grandet. Trans. by Ellen Marriage. Intro. by Richard Aldington. 10-1/2x6-3/4, tan buckram with 2 black hinge-like leather insets stamped in gilt. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Curwen Press. 1960. Together, 2 vols. Illus. by Rene Ben Sussan. Glassine, slipcases. New York & London:. Limited Editions Club, 1948 & 1960. Each signed by Rene Ben Sussan in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
PREFACE BY M.F.K. FISHER
281. Brillat-Savarin, Jean. The Physiology of Taste or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy. Trans. with preface by M.F.K. Fisher. Illus. by Sylvain Sauvage. 10-1/2x6-3/4, quarter calf & dec. boards, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by R.L. Dothard at the shop of E.L. Hildreth & Co. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1949. Chipping to glassine, else fine. (80/120).
SIGNED BY VALENTI ANGELO
282. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. Intro. by Louis Untermeyer. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. 15x10-1/4, gilt-stamped blue cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Signed by Valenti Angelo in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
283. Browning, Robert. The Ring and the Book. 2 vols. Intro. by Edward Dowden. Illus from copper-engraved plates by Carl Schultheiss. 10x7, half red leather & printed boards, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Plantin Press. Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1949. Signed by Schultheiss in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
284. Bryant, William Cullen. The Poems of... Selected & edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illus. with wood engravings by Thomas W. Nason. 10-1/2x6-1/2, full black leather lettered in gilt, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by R. L. Dothard at E. L. Hildreth & Co. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Signed by Nason in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
285. Bulfinch, Thomas. The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes. Intro. by Dudley Fitts. Illus. with full-page lithographs and pen & ink chapter headings by Joe Mugnaini. 11x8-1/2, half vellum & patterned boards, slipcase, glassine. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Robert Dothard & printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Signed by Mugnaini in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
SIGNED BY CRAEMER & MARDERSTEIG
286. Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George. The Last Days of Pompeii. Intro. by Edgar Johnson. Illus. by Kurt Craemer. 11x7, patterned gray cloth, red spine label, jacket, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Signed by Craemer & Madersteig in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
287. Burns, Robert. The Poems of... Selected and Introduced by DeLancey Ferguson. Dec. with wood engravings by Joan Hassall. 10-3/4x6-1/4, half green morocco & light green cloth, embossed portrait medallion on front cover, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by John Dreyfus & printed by Robert Maclehose and Co. Glasgow: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Signed by Hassall in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
6 VOLS. ILLUSTRATED BY VALENTI ANGELO
288. Burton, Richard F., trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. 6 vols. Illus. by Valenti Angelo. 9-1/4x5-1/4, half calf & illus. boards, spines dec. in blind, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by George Macy & printed by the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Signed by Angelo in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
289. Caesar, Julius. The Gallic Wars. Trans. & intro. by John Warrington. Preface by John Mason Brown. Illus. with wood engravings by Bruno Bramanti. 10-1/4x6-3/4, half linen & patterned boards, jacket, slipcase. No. 727 of 1500 copies by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Signed by Bramanti & Mardersteig in colophon. About fine in very good slipcase. (80/120).
290. Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution: A History. Intro. by Cecil Brown. Illus. by Bernard Lamotte. 10-1/2x7-1/4, half morocco & cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Peter Beilenson. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Signed by Lamotte in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR SZYK
291. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Trans. into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill. Illus. by Arthur Szyk. 10x6-1/2, half morocco & dec. boards, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by E.L. Hildreth. New York: Limited Editions Club, [1946]. Signed by Szyk in the colophon. Fine. (100/150).
292. Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone. Intro. by Vincent Starrett. Illus. with hand-colored plates from drawings by Andre Dignimont. 9-3/4x6-1/2, gilt-dec. blue buckram, red morocco spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies planned by John Dreyfus & printed by the Elm Tree Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Signed by Dignimont in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
293. Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White. Intro. by Vincent Starrett. Illus. with hand-colored plates by Leonard Rosoman. 10x6-1/2, half gilt-dec. blue buckram & marbled boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Elm Tree Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Signed by Rosoman in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
294. Columbus, Christoper. Journals and other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Trans. & ed. by Samuel Eliot Morison. Illus. by Lima de Freitas. 12x9, blue buckram with embossed bust of Columbus set into front cover, leather spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the typographic design of Lewis F. White & printed by the Connecticut Printers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Signed by Lima de Freitas in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
1933 ANALECTS OF CONFUCIOUS
295. Confucious. The Analects of Confucious. Trans. with intro. & notes by Lionel Giles. Illus. from photographs. 11x7, brocade silk, string ties, wooden box. No. 947 of 1500 copies. Shanghai: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Fine. (100/150).
ILLUSTRATED BY LYND WARD
296. Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim: A Tale. Intro. by Nicholas Monsarrat. Illus. with color lithographs by Lynd Ward. 9x6-1/2, half blue morocco & dec. boards, spine stamped in gilt, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Printing Office of Yale University Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Signed by Ward in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
297. Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard. Intro. by Rupert Croft-Cooke. Illus. by Lima de Freitas, some handcolored. 11x8-1/4, dec. acquamarine buckram backed with burlap, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Adrian Wilson & printed by Taylor & Taylor. San Francisco: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Signed by de Freitas in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
298. Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the Narcissus. Intro. by Howard Mumford Jones. Illus. with color plates & line drawings by Millard Sheets. 10-1/2x7, half green morocco & dec. cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Signed by Sheets in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
EXPLORATIONS OF JAMES COOK
299. Cook, Captain James. The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of his Own Journals, 1768-1779. Ed. by A. Grenfell Price. Illus. by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. 11x7-3/4, quarter calf & tapa cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Douglas Dunstan at the Griffin Press in Australia. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Signed by Ingleton & Dunstan in the colophon. Fine. (100/150).
300. Cooper, James Fenimore. The Pathfinder. Intro. by Robert E. Spiller. Illus. with color plates by Richard M. Powers. 9-1/2x6-1/4, half buckram & boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Roderick Stinehour & printed at the Stinehour Press. Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Signed by Powers in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
301. Cooper, James Fenimore. The Deerslayer. Intro. by John T. Winterich. Illus. with pen & brush drawings by Edward A. Wilson, hand colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. 10x6-1/2, half deerskin & marbled boards, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard. [Hartford]: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Signed by Wilson in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
302. Cooper, James Fenimore. The Pilot. Intro. by John T. Winterich. Illus. with woodcuts by Robert M. Quackenbush. 10-1/2x8, black buckram lettered in gilt & white, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the typographic plan of Peter Oldenburg & printed at the Garamond Press. [Baltimore]: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Signed by Quackenbush in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
303. Cooper, James Fenimore. The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground. Intro. by John T. Winterich. Illus. by Henry C. Pitz, hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. 10-1/4x6-1/2, patterned cloth, leather spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the press of A. Colish. [Mount Vernon, NY]:. Limited Editions Club, 1963. Signed by Pitz in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY ROBERT GIBBINGS
304. Darwin, Charles. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History & Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M. S. Beagle Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. Intro. by Gavin De Beer. Illus. with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. 12x7-1/2, dec. cloth, leather spine label. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the University Press in Cambridge. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Signed by Gibbings in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY PAUL LANDACRE
305. Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. With a new preface by Charles G. Darwin. Illus. with wood engravings by Paul Landacre. 10-3/4x7-3/4, half oasis morocco & wood veneer boards, spine dec. & lettered in gilt, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Griffin Press under the supervision of Douglas A. Dunstan. Adelaide, South Australia:. Limited Editions Club, 1963. Signed by Landacre in the colophon. Fine. (120/180).
306. Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. Intro. by James Sutherland. Illus. by Domenico Gnoli. 10- 3/8x7, dec. burlap, leather spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Richard Ellis & printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. Bloomfield, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Signed by Gnoli in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
SIGNED BY REGINALD MARSH
307. Defoe, Daniel. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Illus. by Reginald Marsh. 8- 3/4x5-3/4, blue glazed chintz over padded boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Peter Beilenson. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Signed by Marsh in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
308. Dickinson, Emily. Poems of... Ed. by Louis Untermeyer. Illus. by Helen Sewell. 10-3/4x6-3/4 full gilt- lettered black morocco, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by the Aldus Printers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Signed by Sewell in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
309. Donne, John. The Poems of... Selected, introduced, and annotated by Frank Kermode. Illus. from wood engravings by Imre Reiner. 10-3/4x6-1/4, half red morocco & yellow cloth, embossed portrait medallion on front cover, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by John Dreyfus & printed at the University Printing House in Cambridge by Brooke Crutchley. Cambridge, Eng.: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Signed by Reiner in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
FOUR BY DOSTOEVSKY
310. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts & Epilog. 2 vols. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Revised, with intro. by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Illus. with lithographs by Fritz Eichenberg. 11x8-1/4, half buckram & red cloth dec. & lettered in silver, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by George C. Miller. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1949. Signed by Eichenberg in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
311. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. 2 vols. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Intro. by Laurence Irving. Illus. with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. 11-1/4x7-3/4, black & red cloth dec. & lettered in gilt, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the shop of E. L. Hildreth & Co. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Signed by Eichenberg in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
312. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Gambler and Notes from the Underground. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Intro. by George Steiner. Illus. by Alexandre Alexeieff. 10-1/4x7-1/4, half calf & pictorial cloth, spine stamped in gilt, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by John Dreyfus & printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. [Bloomfield, CT]: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Signed by Alexeieff in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
313. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Possessed. 2 vols. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Intro. by Marc Slonim, incl. the suppressed chapt., "Stavrogin's Confession," trans. by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Illus. with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. 10x6-1/2, pictorial cloth, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Signed by Eichenberg in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
314. Doughty, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Ed. by Edward Garnett. Intro. by T. E. Lawrence. Illus. with collotypes after drawings by Edy Legrand. 10-1/2x7-1/2, pictorial linen bound in the Islamic style. No. 938 of 1500 copies planned by George Macy & printed by Irvin Silvers at the Garamond Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1953. Near fine to fine. (40/70).
ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
315. Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 3 vols. Intro. by Vincent Starrett. 1950. * The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Intro. by Elmer Davis. 3 vols. 1952. * The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Intro. by Anthony Boucher. 2 vols. 1952. Together, 3 works in 8 vols. Corrected and Edited by Edgar W. Smith. Illus. after the originals by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget & others. 9x6-1/4, half gilt-stamped cloth & patterned boards, embossed portrait medallion on front covers, glassine, slipcases. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Peter Bielenson. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950 & 1952. Fine. (250/400).
316. Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. Intro. by Harry Hansen. Illus. by Reginald Marsh. 10-3/4x7-1/4, reddish-brown cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the George Grady Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Unsigned as Marsh died before publication. Fine. (50/80).
317. Dumas, Alexandre. The Black Tulip. Trans. by S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald. Intro. by Ben Ray Redman. Illus. by Frans Lammers. 8-1/4x5-1/4. Full natural niger morocco, tulip design in gilt & black leather on front cover, leather spine label, t.e.g., glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from a design by Jan Van Krimpen & printed at Joh. Enschede en Zonen. Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Signed by Lammers & Krimpen in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
318. Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers. Trans. by William Robson. Preface by the Author. Letters from Dumas Fils & Andrew Lang. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the George Grady Press. 1953. * Twenty Years After. Intro. by Ben Ray Redman. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Peter Beilenson. 1958. * The Man in the Iron Mask. Intro. by Andre Maurois. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Edna Beilenson. Together, 3 vols. Illus. with plates by Edy Legrand, hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. 9-1/2x6-1/2, cloth with gilt fluer-de-lys on front covers, t.e.g., slipcases. New York: Limited Editions Club, various dates. Fine. (80/120).
319. Ecclesiastes. The Book of Ecclesiastes. From the revised King James version. Intro. by Kenneth Rexroth. Illus. with color plates by Edgar Miller. 11-1/2x8-1/4, full tan sheep dec. in blind on covers, stamped in gilt on spine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies planned by David Way & printed at the Thistle Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Signed by Miller in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
320. Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Intro. by John T. Winterich. Illus. by Lynton Lamb. 10x6, half cloth & patterned boards. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Shenval Press. 1953. * The Mill on the Floss. Intro. by David Daiches. Illus. by Wray Manning. 10x6-1/4, green cloth, leather spine label. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Edna Beilenson. 1963. Together, 2 vols. Glassine, slipcases. London & New York:. Limited Editions Club, 1953 & 1963. Each signed by the illustrator in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS
321. Epictetus. The Discourses. Trans. by P. E. Matheson. Illus. with color plates & line drawings by Hans Erni. 11-1/4x7-3/4, gilt-dec. cloth, morocco spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Max Caflisch & printed by Benteli AG, Buchruckerei. Berne: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Signed by Erni in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
322. Epicurus. ...The Extant Remains of the Greek Text. Text in Greek & English. Trans. by Cyril Bailey. Illus. with gilt headpieces. 9-1/4x5-1/2, full black morocco stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Bruce Rogers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Signed by Rogers in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
323. Euripides. Media, Hippolytus, The Bacchae. Trans. by Philip Vellacott. Illus. by Michael Ayrton. 12-1/2x8- 1/2, half cloth & boards, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Will Carter & printed at the Curwen Press. London: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Signed by Ayrton in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
324. Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling. 2 vols. Intro. by Louis Kronenberger. Illus. in color by T. M. Cleland. 10x7, buckram, paper spine labels, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Signed by Cleland in colophon. Fine. (60/90).
325. Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of.... Intro. by Edward F. O'Day. Frontis. port. 13-1/4x9, vellum- backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. No. 680 of 1500 copies printed by John Henry Nash.San Francisco: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Signed by printer Nash in the colophon. Slipcase broken, vol. about fine. (70/100).
326. Froissart, Jean. The Chronicles of England, France, Spain and Other Places Adjoining. Trans. by John Bourchier Ld Berners. Ed. by G. C. Macaulay. Intro. by Sidney Painter. Illus. with 16 double-spread line & wash drawings by Henry C. Pitz & hand-colored through stencils at the Walter Fischer Studios. 11x7, blue dec. cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Peter Beilenson. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Signed by Pitz in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
POEMS OF ROBERT FROST, SIGNED
327. Frost, Robert. The Complete Poems of.... 2 vols. Preface by the author. Appreciation by Louis Untermeyer. Illus. with wood engravings by Thomas W. Nason. 10-1/2x7, dark blue cloth, morocco spine labels, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Marchbanks Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950. Signed in the colophon by Frost, Nason & Bruce Rogers. Fine. (300/500).
SEVEN VOLUME DECLINE
328. Gibbon, Edward. The History of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 7 vols. Ed. by J.B. Bury. Illus. from etchings by Piranesi. Quarter morocco & marbled boards, gilt-lettered & dec. spines, glassine, slipacse. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Paul McPharlin. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1946. Fine. (200/300).
329. (Gilbert & Sullivan) The First Night Gilbert and Sulivan. Containing Complete Librettos of the Fourteen Operas, Exactly as presented at their Premiere Performances; Together with Facsimiles of the First-Night Programmes. Edited and prologue by Reginald Allen. Forward by Bridget D'Oyly Carte. Illus. with contemporary drawings. 12x8-1/4, half red velvet & gilt-stamped green linen. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Eugene Ettenberg & printed at the Gallery Press. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Accompanied by Facsimiles of the First-Night Programmes enclosed in a separate box portfolio with cover label & green tassle. Fine. (100/150.)
330. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. The Story of Reynard the Fox. Trans. by Thomas James Arnold. Intro. by Edward Lazare. Illus. with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. 11x7-3/4, half cloth & dec. boards. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Gallery Press. 1954. * Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Intro. by Franz Schoenberner. Illus. by William Sharp. 10-1/2x7, patterned cloth, leather spine label. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Riverside Press. 1959. Together, 2 vols. Slipcases. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954 & 1959. Each signed by the illustrator in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
331. Grammaticus, Saxo. The History of Amleth, Prince of Denmark. Trans. by Oliver Elton. Prefatory note by Henrik De Kauffmann. Intro. by Sir Israel Gollancz. Illus. with wood engravings by Sigurd Vasegaard. 10-3/4x7-1/4, half pigskin & dec. boards, slipcase. No. 727 of 1500 copies printed by C. Volmer Nordlunde. Copenhagen: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Signed by Vasegaard in colophon. Small tear to slipcase, otherwise fine. (40/70).
4 VOLUMES GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES
332. Grimm Brothers. Grimm's Fairy Tales. 4 vols. Ed. by Louis & Bryna Untermeyer. Foreward by Louis Untermeyer. Essay by Andrew Lang. Illus. by Lucille Corcos. 10x7, green & white patterned cloth, gilt lettered spines, glassine, slipcases. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Signed by Corcos in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
333. Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison & John Jay. The Federalist or the New Constitution. 2 vols. Intro. by Carl Van Doren. Decorated by Bruce Rogers. 9-1/2x6, half morocco & dec. boards, spines stamped in gilt, t.e.g, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Stratford Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Signed by Rogers in colophon. Fine. (60/90).
334. Hardy, Thomas. Far From the Madding Crowd. Intro. by Robert Cantwell. Illus. with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 9x5-3/4, half sheepskin & dec. boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the University Press. Cambridge, [England]:. Limited Editions Club, 1958. Signed by Parker in colophon. With additional wood engraving, loose in paper folder, signed by Parker. Fine. (60/90).
335. Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman. Intro. by Robert Cantwell. Illus. with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 8-1/2x5-1/2, pictorial cloth, leather spine label. No. 727 of 1500 copies by the George Grady Press. New York: Limited Editions Press, 1956. Signed by Parker in colophon. Slipcase spine label mostly worn off; vol. fine. (40/70).
336. Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Intro. by Frank Swinnerton. Illus. with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 9-1/4x6, half morocco & boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by the Thistle Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Signed by Parker in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
337. Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus, His Songs and his Sayings. Foreword by Marc Connelly. Illus. with woodcuts by Seong Moy. 9-1/2x7-3/4, pictorial cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Thistle Press. New York: LImited Editions Club, 1957. Signed by Moy in the colophon. Fine. (70/100).
338. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Twice Told Tales. Selected with intro. by Wallace Stegner. Illus. by Valenti Angelo. 10-3/4x7-1/4, cloth, morocco spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Stinehour Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Signed by Angelo in the colophon. Fine. (70/100).
339. Heine, Heinrich. Poems of.... Trans. with intro. by Louis Untermeyer. Hand-colored illustrations by Fritz Kredel. 9-1/2x5-3/4, calf-backed paste-paper boards, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase. No. 727 of 1500 copies printed by the Thistle Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Signed by Kredel in the colophon. Fine. (70/100).
340. Herodotus. The Histories of Herodotus. Trans. by Harry Carter. Illus. & dec. by Edward Bawden. 9-1/2x5-3/4, brown buckram over beveled boards, embossed cameo portrait on front cover, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen. Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Signed by Bawden in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
341. Hersey, John. The Wall. Intro. by George N. Shuster. Illus. with 12 aquatints & numerous pen & ink drawings by William Sharp. 10-1/2x7-1/4, black & brown cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Marchbanks Press from the typographic plan of Peter Oldenburg. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Signed by Sharp in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
342. Hope, Anthony. The Prisoner of Zenda. Intro. by S. C. Roberts. Illus. with color plates & line drawings by Donald Spencer. 10x6-3/4, half red leather & white cloth, gilt-stamped coat of arms on front cover, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Garamond Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, [1966]. Signed by Spencer in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
343. Horace. Pages From Earlier Editions of... Bibliographical Note by John T. Winterich. Illus. with facsimile pages. 13-1/4x9-1/2, half cloth & marbled boards. No. 939 of 1500 copies by the Thistle Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Lacking slipcase, else fine. (70/100).
344. Hugo, Victor. Notre-Dame De Paris. Trans. by Jessie Haynes. Intro. by Justin O'Brien. Illus. by Bernard Lamotte. 11-1/2x8, pictorial cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the George Grady Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Signed by Lamotte in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
345. Hugo, Victor. The Toilers of the Sea. Trans. by Isabel F. Hapgood. Intro. by Matthew Josephson. Illus. with wood engravings by Tranquillo Marangoni. 10-1/4x7, half cloth & patterned boards, jacket, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Signed by Marangoni & Mardersteig in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
346. Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt. Trans. & intro. by William & Charles Archer. Illus. by Per Krohg. 10- 1/4x7-1/2, 3/4 cloth & dec. boards. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed under the supervision of Harald Grieg. 1955. * Three Plays: An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler. Intro. by John Gassner. Illus. with woodcuts by Fredrik Matheson. 9-3/4x6-1/2, 3/4 tan morocco & patterned boards, gilt-lettered contrasting spine labels. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Kirstes Boktrykkeri. Together, 2 vols. Slipcases. Oslo: Limited Editions Club, 1955 & 1964 . Each signed by the illustrator in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
347. Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona: A Story By... Intro. by J. Frank Dobie. Illus. by Everett Gee Jackson. 10x7, patterned cloth, paper spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Plantin Press. Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Signed by Jackson in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
348. James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Illus. by Leslie Saalburg. 10-1/2x7, gilt-lettered cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Garamond Press. 1963. * The Portrait of a Lady. Intro. by R. W. Stallman. Illus. by Colleen Browning. 10-1/4x7-1/4, half red buckram & marbled boards. 1 of 1500 copies from the typographic plan of Peter Odenburg & printed at the Garamond Press. 1967. Together, 2 vols. Slipcases. [Baltimore]: Limited Editions Club, 1963 & 1967. Fine. (50/80).
349. Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Intro. by Hugh Kenner. Illus. by Brian Keogh. 9-1/2x6-1/2, half gilt-stamped black leather & green boards, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Clarke and Way from a plan by Ruari McLean. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Signed by Keogh in colophon. Fine. (60/90).
350. Kingsley, Charles. Westward Ho! 2 vols.Illus. with hand-colored plates after drawings by Edward A. Wilson. 10-1/2x6-3/4, half linen & pictorial boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Ackerman-Standard Press. New York & Ipswich:. Limited Editions Club, 1947. Signed by the illustrator in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
351. Kipling, Ruydard. Kim. Intro. by Charles Edmund Carrington. Illus. with hand-colored plates & line drawings by Robin Jacques. 10x7, half leather & gilt-dec. cloth, spine stamped in gilt, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Marbridge Press from a design by Ruari McLean. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Signed by Jacques in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
2 VOLUMES LEWIS & CLARK
352. Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark. The Journals of the Expedition under the Command of Capts. Lewis and Clark.... 2 vols. Ed. by Nicholas Biddle. Intro. by John Bakeless. Illus. by contemporary artists. 11-1/4x7-1/2, dec. cloth, morocco spine labels, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Connecticut Printers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Fine. (100/150).
GROUPS OF LEC'S
353. (Limited Editions Club) A Record of the Proceedings at the Limited Edition Club's Dinner to Celebrate the Twenty-first Birthday of the Club & the Fiftieth Birthday of its Founder. Illus. by T.M. Cleland. 12-3/4x9-3/4, quarter cloth & boards. 1 of 3000 copies printed by the Aldus Printers. 1950. * Meredith. The Shaving of Shagpat. Illus. by Honor‚ Guilbeau. 9-1/4x6, quarter morocco & dec. boards. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the George Grady Press. 1955. * Congreve. The Ways of the World. Illus. by T.M. Cleland. 10x7, cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by A. Colish. 1959. * Wells. Tono-Bungay. Intro. by Norman Strouse. Illus. by Lynton Lamb. 9-3/4x6-1/2, cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Thistle Press. 1960. * Tarkington. Monsieur Beauclaire. Illus. by T.M. Cleland. 8-1/4x5-3/4, brocade cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by A. Colish. 1961. * Bierce. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Illus. by Michel Ciry. 10-3/4x7-1/4, cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Tri-Arts Press. 1967. Together, 6 vols. All but 1st in slipcases. Various places:. Limited Editions Club, 1959 & 1960. All but first signed by illustrators in the colophons. Fine. (80/120).